Last week, the Clinton media
heralded that ´´things are returning to normal´´ now that the
impeachment trial is over. And indeed this week, things are back to
normal, with the unfolding of yet another Clinton scandal. Now it´s
Jane Doe #5, Juanita Broaddrick, who says that Bill Clinton raped her
in 1978 when he was Arkansas´ attorney general.

Mrs. Broaddrick had maintained for two decades that she
was not raped. But last year, FBI agents questioned her as part of Ken
Starr´s investigation, and she disclosed the incident in detail, as she
subsequently did in an interview with NBC.

Asked why she did not report the incident in 1978, Mrs.
Broaddrick responded with a patent post-rape reply: ´´I just didn´t
think anyone would have believed me. ... I think I was in denial.´´ Now
she says, ´´I feel like I have gotten the biggest weight off my
shoulders. I did it because of my twin granddaughters. ... When they
ask me about this in a few years...I didn´t want them asking me, ´Why
didn´t you come forward?´´´

Juanita Broaddrick is no ´´Little Rock prostitute
claiming Clinton fathered her child.´´ She is, according to federal
investigators, a very credible witness. As NBC´s Lisa Myers told
Broaddrick, ´´The good news is you´re credible. The bad news is you´re
very credible.´´

Mr. Clinton´s attorney David E. Kendall says, ´´Any
allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20
years ago is absolutely false. Beyond that we are not going to
comment.´´ Did he assault her less than 20 years ago? What exactly does
´´beyond that´´ mean? Perhaps Mr. Clinton is again parsing words -- in
this case ´´sexual assault´´ -- and he has not been asked about the
case in words specifically suited to his peculiar vernacular. ´´My
counsel has made a statement...and I have nothing to add to it,´´ said
Mr. Clinton, when asked for comment on the allegation.

Clinton attorney Lanny J. Davis complained about media
coverage and the facts: ´´Is journalism about reporting facts or not?
Where have we gone when an unsubstantiated allegation becomes a
fact...?´´ Of course, it is Mr. Clinton who has led the country to the
place where ´´facts´´ are irrelevant. And, ironically, a growing chorus
of his media now finds Mrs. Broaddrick´s story, and those like it, more
credible than anything Mr. Clinton has to say.

Additionally, despite his 60% so-called ´´job approval´´
ratings, the same percentage of Americans consistently report that they
do not trust Mr. Clinton. It´s just that the public, like Clinton and
his Democratic defenders, place their immediate condition of prosperity
over principle. The exercise of such principles, they have been warned,
places their welfare in peril. But it is our nation in peril when its
people no longer trust its president.

As for Jane Doe #5, the Arkansas statute of limitation
on rape has expired. Though Juanita Broaddrick has no legal recourse,
she joins the ranks of now-countless plaintiffs who have charged the
protagonist of ´´the most ethical administration in history´´ with
now-countless acts of corruption. Mrs. Broaddrick falls among other
known victims of one category of Clinton acts of corruption: sexual
assault. She joins Eileen Wellstone, Carolyn Moffet, Elizabeth Ward
[Gracen], Paula Corbin [Jones], Sandra Allen [James], Christy Zercher,
and Kathleen Willey. Mr. Clinton is banking on the bet that America´s
statute of limitation on outrage has expired.

Sexual assault -- rape and sexual domination -- is
decidedly not ´´just about sex.´´ It is about power. Bill Clinton´s
locus of desire is not centered on sex, but an unmitigated lust for
power. In his narcissistic quest to satisfy that insatiable lust, he is
doing to all Americans what he did to Juanita Broaddrick. We are the
John and Jane Does of the Clinton era.

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